Stratospheric controlled perturbation experiment: A small-scale experiment to improve understanding of the risks of solar geoengineering

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2031, 2014, Pages

  Dykema, John A ^a   Keith, David W ^a,c   Anderson, James G ^a,b   Weisenstein, Debra ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balloon; Geoengineering; Ozone depletion; Solar radiation management; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERICS; BALLOONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CONTROLLED PERTURBATION; GEOENGINEERING; INSTRUMENT DESIGNS; OZONE DEPLETION; RADIATION MANAGEMENT; SMALL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84910672180     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0059     Document Type: Article

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